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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

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